The “Amazon Effect” is coming to oil markets
While OPEC mulls over further steps to once again support falling oil prices, tech startups are quietly ushering in a new era in oil and gas: the era of the digital oil field.
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Site visit: Sabina unlocks a high-grade gold vault at Back River
The main mystery on the company’s vast Back River property may be just how many high-grade ounces are buried under the Arctic tundra.
Here’s why bitcoin won’t replace gold so easily
Lately I’ve been seeing more and more headlines asking whether cryptos are “killing” gold. Would the gold price be higher today if massive amounts of money weren’t flowing into bitcoin?
LME to expand trading around gold and silver reference prices
The LME expects three more clearing members to join its precious metals contracts by year-end.
Elliott tours BHP investors in renewed push for radical shake-up – sources
Representatives from Elliott have in the last month met with major BHP investors based in London, South Africa and Australia to lay out the activist fund's arguments for an overhaul of the miner.
Iron ore dangerously close to $60 a tonne
Ongoing concerns that looming steel production cuts in China on environmental grounds will sap steel mill demand continue to weigh on prices.
Key permit granted to McEwen’s Gold Bar project in Nevada
Company expects the full permitting process to be completed by December.
Move over gold, diamonds may become one of the greatest safe-havens
The Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange (SDIX) has launched a new investment-grade, standardized diamond product to rival gold as a safe-haven asset.
Australia state kills plan to hike gold mining tax over job fears
Proposal sought to raise hundreds of million of dollars in additional taxes on gold mining, but industry warned the step would spark job losses.
